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Papers of, or accumulated by, [1700x1915], D. Lleufer Thomas, comprising material relating to the Welsh Land Commission, miscellaneous prose and verse, correspondence and other papers.

Original papers, letters and printed and manuscript statements submitted by landowners, tenants and others to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales, of which Daniel Lleufer Thomas was secretary, and which issued its report in 1896.

Returns from railway companies, corporations, tenants who had purchased their farms, etc.

Returns from North Wales landowners.

Examples of leases and agreements between landlords and tenants in various parts of Wales.

The evidence given by Lord Penrhyn, chairman of the North Wales Property Defence Association, with copies of the translated extracts from Baner ac Amserau Cymru and other newspapers used by him in support of his evidence.

Notes on Monmouthshire and other place names mainly in the form of replies to queries sent by Daniel Lleufer Thomas, together with letters to him on the same subject from Sir Joseph Bradney, Llywarch Reynolds, T. Wilkes of the Ordnance Survey and James G. Wood, Lincoln's Inn.

Letters containing notes on Welsh manors and manorial rights written in reply to requests for information sent by Daniel Lleufer Thomas to lords and stewards of manors and others. Among the correspondents are John Stuart Corbett, Alcwyn C. Evans, John Lloyd, Brecon, John Hobson Mathews, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Frederick Seebohm and Stephen W. Williams, Rhayader.

Papers sent to Daniel Lleufer Thomas in the capacity of Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Labour (1892). They relate to agricultural labourers in Wales and include replies to questionnaires and letters from landowners, workmen, officials of Friendly Societies and Poor Law Unions, etc.

Letters, memoranda, maps and plans and other material submitted as evidence to the Welsh Land Commission by landowners, tenants and others, including notes of the evidence of Thomas E. Ellis, M.P., together with the rent receipt books, 1852-1879, of David Evans, tenant of farms on the estate of H[ugh] Powell Williams.

Correspondence and particulars of cases submitted to the Solicitor to H.M. Treasury relating to alleged cases of intimidation of witnesses who gave evidence before the Welsh Land Commission.

Newspaper cuttings relating mainly to the proceedings of the Welsh Land Commission.

Correspondence, 1896, between Daniel Lleufer Thomas and certain Government departments in London concerning the translation into Welsh of Government and official publications.

A copy of 'Book II (Conclusions and Recommendations)' of Report of the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire, containing the signatures of all the Commissioners, together with a copy of a further statement signed by the majority of the Commissioners.

Evidence submitted to the Welsh Church Commission, 1906-1907, dealing mainly with Nonconformity in North Wales.

Evidence submitted to the Welsh Church Commission, 1906-1907, dealing mainly with Nonconformity in South Wales.

Tables prepared for the Welsh Land Commission showing acreage and rents of farms on the Glanllyn estate, Merioneth, the property of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart, Wynnstay.

Two lists of Welsh families in Hughesofka, Russia, sent in 1896 to Daniel Lleufer Thomas, secretary of the Welsh Land Commission, the one supplied by John J. Hughes, son of John Hughes, founder of the settlement and of the metallurgical industry established there, and the other by the Russian Embassy, together with correspondence.

Names of members of the local committee set up in connection with the visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Association to Cardiff, 1912, together with a list of subscribers to the local fund.

Details concerning the military service of Colonel William Vaughan, Jacobite, of Courtfield, Herefordshire, extracted from the archives of the War Office, Simancas, Spain.